Projects and case studies

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  • Country case studies for the ILO/World Bank

    IES was commissioned to produce country case studies of the UK and Canadian apprenticeship systems for the ILO/World Bank project on ‘Possible futures for the Indian Apprenticeship system’.

  • Labour Market Transitions of Young People

    The purpose of this assignment was to provide an overview of good practices in selected member states that promote successful school-to-work transitions for both young people in general and those who face specific labour market barriers, notably...

  • Universal credit and self employment

    Universal Credit will provide a new single system of means-tested support for working-age people who are in or out of work. It will also change the way that self employed people are supported by the benefits system since it will require i) monthly...

  • Evaluation of EU-OSHA's use of the European Enterprise Network for passing information on OSH to SMEs

    IES was commissioned by EU-OSHA to evaluate its communication partnership project (CPP), the aim of which is to improve the reach of communication on OSH topics to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. The evaluation included a...

  • Evaluation of the Youth Contract Programme

    The 16-17 Youth Contract aims to provide support to low qualified, young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). It will be delivered through prime contractors who will lead or sub-contract work to support and re-engage young...

  • Work to inform the development of the new Leadership College

    The Learning and Skills Improvement Service wished to conduct an audit of the previous and current leadership initiatives that had been achieved in the sector, with the intention that the audit would inform an impact assessment of initiatives to...

  • Evaluation of phase 4 of the Trials to support Raising the Participation Age

    The 2008 Education and Skills Act included proposals for a future government to raise the age at which young people are expected to stay in learning in England to 17 years from 2013 and to their 18th birthday from 2015 and to place a duty on...

  • Adult Career Decision-Making

    Qualitative research, for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, with sixty-five adults who were making career decisions, in order to explore what influenced them in making these decisions, factors that were most important and the...

  • Supporting Learners with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities to Access ESF Priority 2 Provision

    IES, in partnership with the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE), was commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to carry out research into the apparent under-representation of learners with a...

  • Investors in People Consumer Insight Analysis

    The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) commissioned IES to review Investors in People (IIP) assessment reports to analyse organisations' motivations and the challenges they face in achieving the standard.The aim was to use cluster...